List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population

Last updated April 03, 2024

This is a list of the five most populous incorporated cities and the capital city in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited territories of the United States.

List


State, federal district, or territory	State, federal district, or territory population^[1]	Most populous		2nd most populous		3rd most populous		4th most populous		5th most populous		Capital (if not otherwise listed)
State, federal district, or territory	State, federal district, or territory population^[1]	Name	Population	Name	Population	Name	Population	Name	Population	Name	Population	Name	Population
Alabama	4,887,871	Huntsville	215,006	Montgomery	200,603	Birmingham	197,575	Mobile	187,041	Tuscaloosa	99,600^[2]
Alaska	737,438	Anchorage	291,538	Juneau	32,197	Fairbanks	31,516	Wasilla	10,529	Sitka	8,647
American Samoa	55,519^[3]	Tafuna	7,945^[4]	Nuʻuuli	3,955	Pago Pago	3,656	'Ili'ili	3,195	Pava'ia'i	2,450	^{[note 1]}
Arizona	7,171,646	Phoenix	1,660,272	Tucson	545,975	Mesa	508,958	Chandler	257,165	Scottsdale	255,310
Arkansas	3,013,852	Little Rock	202,591	Fayetteville	93,949	Fort Smith	89,142	Springdale	84,161	Jonesboro	78,576
California	39,557,045	Los Angeles	3,997,984	San Diego	1,425,976	San Jose	1,030,119	San Francisco	884,198	Fresno	530,093	Sacramento (6)	508,529
Colorado	5,695,564	Denver	719,238	Colorado Springs	483,829	Aurora	374,114	Fort Collins	167,830	Lakewood	156,798
Connecticut	3,605,944	Bridgeport	148,654	Stamford	135,470	New Haven	134,023	Hartford	121,054	Waterbury	114,403
Delaware	967,171	Wilmington	70,635	Dover	38,079	Newark	33,673	Middletown	22,582	Smyrna	11,580
District of Columbia	702,455	Washington, D.C.	702,455
Florida	21,538,187	Jacksonville	949,611	Miami	467,963	Tampa	384,959	Orlando	307,573	St. Petersburg	258,308	Tallahassee (8)	196,169
Georgia	10,711,908	Atlanta	498,715	Columbus	206,922	Augusta	202,081	Macon	157,346	Savannah	147,780
Guam	159,358	Dededo	44,943	Yigo	20,539	Tamuning	19,685	Mangilao	15,191	Barrigada	8,875	Hagåtña (18)	1,051
Hawaii	1,420,491	Honolulu ¹	347,397	East Honolulu ¹	49,914	Pearl City ¹	47,698	Hilo ¹	43,263	Kailua ¹	38,635
Idaho	1,754,208	Boise	228,790	Meridian	106,894	Nampa	96,252	Idaho Falls	63,398	Caldwell	56,541
Illinois	12,741,080	Chicago	2,705,994	Aurora	198,187	Naperville	148,304	Joliet	148,099	Rockford	146,526	Springfield (6)	114,694
Indiana	6,691,878	Indianapolis	867,125	Fort Wayne	267,633	Evansville	117,963	South Bend	103,290	Carmel	99,329
Iowa	3,156,145	Des Moines	216,853	Cedar Rapids	133,174	Davenport	102,085	Sioux City	82,396	Iowa City	76,290
Kansas	2,911,505	Wichita	389,225	Overland Park	197,219	Kansas City	156,607	Olathe	139,605	Topeka	125,904
Kentucky	4,468,402	Louisville	620,578	Lexington	323,780	Bowling Green	68,401	Owensboro	59,809	Covington	40,366	Frankfort (15)	27,679
Louisiana	4,659,978	New Orleans	399,187	Baton Rouge	221,599	Shreveport	185,902	Lafayette	126,143	Lake Charles	78,001
Maine	1,338,404	Portland	66,417	Lewiston	35,944	Bangor	31,997	South Portland	25,606	Auburn	23,196	Augusta (10)	18,681
Maryland ⁴	6,042,718	Baltimore	594,282	Columbia	104,156	Germantown	91,347	Silver Spring	83,267	Waldorf	78,904	Annapolis (7)	39,174
Massachusetts	6,902,149	Boston	699,927	Worcester	185,877	Springfield	155,032	Cambridge	118,977	Lowell	111,670
Michigan	9,995,915	Detroit	672,662	Grand Rapids	200,217	Warren	134,587	Sterling Heights	132,964	Ann Arbor	121,890	Lansing (6)	118,427
Minnesota	5,611,179	Minneapolis	427,728	Saint Paul	312,818	Rochester	117,902	Duluth	85,884	Bloomington	85,578
Mississippi	2,986,530	Jackson	164,422	Gulfport	71,870	Southaven	54,944	Biloxi	45,968	Hattiesburg	45,951
Missouri	6,126,452	Kansas City	508,090	Saint Louis	302,838	Springfield	168,122	Columbia	123,180	Independence	116,925	Jefferson City (15)	42,838
Montana	1,062,305	Billings	116,827	Missoula	74,428	Great Falls	58,701	Bozeman	48,532	Butte	34,284	Helena (6)	32,315
Nebraska	1,929,268	Omaha	468,262	Lincoln	287,401	Bellevue	53,627	Grand Island	51,478	Kearney	33,761
Nevada	3,034,392	Las Vegas	649,876	Henderson	317,189	Reno	259,746	North Las Vegas	246,133	Paradise	219,178	Carson City (10)	55,414
New Hampshire	1,356,458	Manchester	112,525	Nashua	89,246	Concord	43,412	Dover	31,771	Rochester	31,366
New Jersey	8,908,520	Newark	282,090	Jersey City	265,549	Paterson	145,627	Elizabeth	128,885	Edison	100,008	Trenton (10)	83,974
New Mexico	2,095,428	Albuquerque	560,218	Las Cruces	102,926	Rio Rancho	98,023	Santa Fe	94,528	Roswell	47,635
New York	19,542,209	New York City	8,879,928	Buffalo	278,349	Yonkers	211,569	Rochester	211,328	Syracuse	148,620	Albany (6)	97,279
North Carolina	10,383,620	Charlotte	882,367	Raleigh	478,956	Greensboro	298,329	Durham	278,547	Winston-Salem	248,232
North Dakota	760,077	Fargo	124,844	Bismarck	73,112	Grand Forks	56,948	Minot	47,340	West Fargo	36,566
Northern Mariana Islands	53,883	Saipan ²	48,220	Tinian ²	3,136	Rota ²	2,527	Northern Islands ²	0
Ohio	11,689,442	Columbus	895,477	Cleveland	382,817	Cincinnati	302,605	Toledo	273,782	Akron	198,006
Oklahoma	3,943,079	Oklahoma City	649,021	Tulsa	400,669	Norman	123,471	Broken Arrow	109,471	Edmond	93,127
Oregon	4,190,713	Portland	661,189	Salem	173,442	Eugene	171,245	Gresham	110,158	Hillsboro	108,389
Pennsylvania	12,807,060	Philadelphia	1,587,828	Pittsburgh	301,048	Allentown	126,238	Erie	96,471	Reading	88,495	Harrisburg (9)	50,183
Puerto Rico	3,195,153	San Juan	320,967	Bayamón	170,480	Carolina	147,661	Ponce	133,191	Caguas	124,434
Rhode Island	1,057,315	Providence	179,335	Cranston	81,274	Warwick	80,847	Pawtucket	71,847	East Providence	47,476
South Carolina	5,124,712	Charleston	150,277	Columbia	136,632	North Charleston	114,852	Mount Pleasant	90,801	Rock Hill	74,372
South Dakota	882,235	Sioux Falls	181,883	Rapid City	75,443	Aberdeen	28,562	Brookings	24,509	Watertown	22,655	Pierre (8)	13,980
Tennessee	6,770,010	Nashville	681,928	Memphis	650,618	Knoxville	187,500	Chattanooga	180,557	Clarksville	163,648
Texas	28,701,845	Houston	2,325,502	San Antonio	1,532,233	Dallas	1,356,785	Austin	993,649	Fort Worth	902,938
Utah	3,161,105	Salt Lake City	200,591	West Valley City	136,401	Provo	118,178	West Jordan	116,046	Orem	97,521
Vermont	626,299	Burlington	44,743	South Burlington	20,292	Colchester	17,524	Rutland	15,807	Bennington	15,333	Montpelier (16)	8,074
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	106,405	Charlotte Amalie ³	18,481	Sion Farm ³	13,003	Northside ³	10,049	East End ³	5,128	Southcentral ³	3,277
Virginia	8,517,685	Virginia Beach	450,189	Norfolk	244,076	Chesapeake	242,634	Richmond	228,783	Arlington	224,906
Washington	7,535,591	Seattle	754,567	Spokane	219,190	Tacoma	216,279	Vancouver	183,012	Bellevue	147,599	Olympia (23)	52,555
West Virginia	1,805,832	Charleston	47,215	Huntington	46,048	Morgantown	30,955	Parkersburg	29,675	Wheeling	26,771
Wisconsin	5,813,568	Milwaukee	592,025	Madison	258,054	Green Bay	108,827	Kenosha	100,164	Racine	77,432
Wyoming	577,737	Cheyenne	63,957	Casper	57,461	Laramie	32,473	Gillette	31,903	Rock Springs	23,082

Census-designated places on the list

Note 1: The only incorporated place in Hawaii is the City & County of Honolulu. A portion of it, the Honolulu District, is sometimes regarded as the "city" for statistical purposes, although it has no government separate from that of the City and County as a whole. The U.S. Census Bureau defines Honolulu CDP (census-designated place) to coincide with the Honolulu District. Thus for Hawaii, the largest CDPs are ranked.

Note 2: The 4 municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands are listed. Each municipality is divided into smaller villages, but the municipalities are considered the primary subdivisions (as in how Saipan is usually listed as the capital rather than Capitol Hill, Saipan). The five largest villages are Garapan (3,983), Dandan (3,280), Koblerville (2,493), Finasisu (2,491) and Kagman III (2,402), with Capitol Hill being the 19th largest village at 1,028 people.

Note 3: The most populous sub-districts of the U.S. Virgin Islands (as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau) are listed.^[5] The three largest towns are Charlotte Amalie (10,354), Christiansted (2,433) and Frederiksted (859).

Note 4: Though Maryland has a number of incorporated places, many major population centers, usually suburbs in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, are census-designated places. For a list of incorporated places, see List of incorporated places in Maryland. If only incorporated places are considered, Annapolis, Maryland's capital, is the seventh-largest city of the state.

Notes

↑ Although Pago Pago is the capital of American Samoa, Fagatogo (population 1,737) is the seat of government.

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References

↑ Staff, Website Services & Coordination. "US Census Bureau 2010 Census Interactive Population Map". www.census.gov. Archived from the original on 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
↑ "Alabama – Place. GCT-PH1. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2008-09-28.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ CIA World Factbook. American Samoa. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
↑ American FactFinder. Profile of General Demographic characteristics: 2010. 2010 American Samoa demographic profile data. Geography set to "Tafuna village, American Samoa" Archived 2017-05-03 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved July 5, 2019.
↑ Census.gov. 2010 Census - U.S. Virgin Islands Districts and Subdistricts. Retrieved September 21, 2018.

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[5] Although Pago Pago is the capital of American Samoa, Fagatogo (population 1,737) is the seat of government.

[1] Staff, Website Services & Coordination. "US Census Bureau 2010 Census Interactive Population Map". www.census.gov. Archived from the original on 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2016-04-13.

[2] "Alabama – Place. GCT-PH1. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2008-09-28.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[3] CIA World Factbook. American Samoa. Retrieved July 5, 2019.

[4] American FactFinder. Profile of General Demographic characteristics: 2010. 2010 American Samoa demographic profile data. Geography set to "Tafuna village, American Samoa" Archived 2017-05-03 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved July 5, 2019.

[6] Census.gov. 2010 Census - U.S. Virgin Islands Districts and Subdistricts. Retrieved September 21, 2018.

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